ghsa-58f5-hfqc-jgch
Vulnerability from github
Published
2021-04-19 14:57
Modified
2021-04-16 23:01
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose
Details

jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations.

Impact

AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed JWEDecryptionFailed would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block).

Patches

All major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are ^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 || >=3.11.4.

Users should upgrade their v1.x dependency to ^1.28.1, their v2.x dependency to ^2.0.5, and their v3.x dependency to ^3.11.4

Credits

Thanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "jose"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.28.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "jose"
      },
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    },
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      },
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              "introduced": "3.0.0"
            },
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-29443"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-203",
      "CWE-696"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-04-16T23:01:38Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-04-16T18:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "jose is an npm library providing a number of cryptographic operations.\n### Impact\n\n[AES_CBC_HMAC_SHA2 Algorithm](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7518#section-5.2) (A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512) decryption would always execute both HMAC tag verification and CBC decryption, if either failed `JWEDecryptionFailed` would be thrown. But a possibly observable difference in timing when padding error would occur while decrypting the ciphertext makes a padding oracle and an adversary might be able to make use of that oracle to decrypt data without knowing the decryption key by issuing on average 128*b calls to the padding oracle (where b is the number of bytes in the ciphertext block).\n\n### Patches\n\nAll major release versions have had a patch released which ensures the HMAC tag is verified before performing CBC decryption. The fixed versions are `^1.28.1 || ^2.0.5 || \u003e=3.11.4`.\n\nUsers should upgrade their v1.x dependency to [`^1.28.1`](https://github.com/panva/jose/releases/tag/v1.28.1), their v2.x dependency to [`^2.0.5`](https://github.com/panva/jose/releases/tag/v2.0.5), and their v3.x dependency to [`^3.11.4`](https://github.com/panva/jose/releases/tag/v3.11.4)\n\n### Credits\nThanks to Morgan Brown of Microsoft for bringing this up and Eva Sarafianou (@esarafianou) for helping to score this advisory.",
  "id": "GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch",
  "modified": "2021-04-16T23:01:38Z",
  "published": "2021-04-19T14:57:22Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/panva/jose/security/advisories/GHSA-58f5-hfqc-jgch"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29443"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/jose"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Padding Oracle Attack due to Observable Timing Discrepancy in jose"
}


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